Alex Blackwell and Alex Dawson

The victim of a stabbing in a Market Harborough street was due to be released from hospital today (Wednesday), according to police.

Officers were called at about 7.30pm on the eve of Christmas Eve after reports of an assault in Green Lane, off Cromwell Crescent in the town.

Police at the scene of the stabbing in Green Lane, Market Harborough. (MAIL PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER)

The victim, a man named in court papers as Wayne Leatherland, who is aged in his mid-forties, suffered a single stab wound – believed to be in the chest – and was taken to University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, in Walsgrave, in a stable condition on December 23.

A 58-year-old man – Lee Anthony Warburton, of Whitehaven, Green Lane, Market Harbroough, has been arrested and charged in connection with the incident.

Court documents seen by the Mail state that Warburton has been charged with “unlawfully and maliciously wounding Mr Leatherland with intent to do him grievous bodily harm”.

Warburton is also charged with being in possession of a folding pocket knife with a cutting edge of more than three inches in a public place; and possession of an offensive weapon, namely a cosh, in a public place.

Police at the scene of the stabbing in Green Lane, Market Harborough. (MAIL PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER)

It is believed that Mr Leatherland is also from Market Harborough.

Warburton appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court on Boxing Day, where three charges were read to him.

Magistrates adjourned the case until Friday, January 9, and Warburton was remanded in custody.

Police officers were called out to Green Lane, off Cromwell Crescent in town, at about 7.30pm on December 23 after reports of an assault in a street.

Police in Green Lane, Market Harborough, tonight after a man was attacked in Cromwell Crescent earlier in the night. (MAIL PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER)

Officers said the victim suffered a single stab wound and was taken to University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, in Walsgrave.

Police said yesterday (Tuesday) that Mr Leatherland was due to be released from hospital today (Wednesday), after spending a week receiving treatment.

Neighbours say the first they knew of the incident was when police cars filled the small Market Harborough cul-de-sac of Green Lane just after 7.30pm.